Uhh... the way that XMPP bridge is implemented and based on years old code is not very promising. I hope someone will make a different bridge similar to Biboumi (which is an awesome XMPP to IRC bridge).

@sunjam The main issue with rocketchat is that it does not federate. We do not want to create yet another walled garden. One of our main criteria (especially for communication/collaboration) services is: "Does it federate?"

It would be awesome if rocket.chat would be built on top of xmpp but since it isnt, we need to build one ourself :)